Arsène Wenger was not intending to celebrate his 65th birthday, but may have
relented and raised a glass on the plane home after Arsenal’s dramatic win.
The best birthday presents are surprises, after all, and Wenger was honest
enough to admit that this ultimately stirring victory had been a tale of the
unexpected.

Arsenal’s fans needed no second invitation to celebrate in the many cosy bars
of Brussels last night, at the end of an evening that they had expected to
culminate in a collective drowning of sorrows. To the hardy souls who had
sung throughout Arsenal’s flattest performance of